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When I was small (and Christmas trees were tall), I thought it would be cool to one day, when I was big, to be like Barry Ronge. In my mind the guy had this awesome job of watching movies (and clearly eating endless amounts of popcorn doing so), but more importantly he got to tell people exactly how stupid some of the movies were. Unfortunately as I grew older the fantasy job of a film critic withered away. For one thing I would never be big like Barry Ronge. read more…
Peach Van Pletzen has produced Van Coke Kartel, Kid Of Doom, is one third of Bittereinder and, as Yesterday’s Pupil has the dubious honour of once being banned from MK for using the word cocaine in a song. He has chosen to release his new album in fragments and for free. The second part of the album, DUEL!, releases today, here, we had a brief chat to him about Queen, vinyl cutters and 5FM listeners who suffer from diarrhoea. read more…
We were going to say something snarky about how international audiences still give a shit about Die Antwoord while back home we’ve all moved on. Then we watched this and kakked ourselves.
Sometimes you gotta laugh. Right? I mean this country. I tell ya. It is funny. Here’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s recent toast at the ANC Centenary shindig: “The leaders will now enjoy the champagne, and of course they do so on your behalf through their lips.” Oh of course. Wait. So the lips of our leaders belong to us? Whatever passes them is our business, is beholden to us? We control, by proxy, the intimate threshold of their lips. Cool. I say we test this. read more…
For how much longer in our post-apartheid jargon are we going to ignore the role of black people in helping to oppress other black people during the bad old days? The racial charges in our society are tired. Too often, they have been exercised in the pursuit of self-benefit. These people were there in Sharpeville in 1976, wielding knobkerries and firing bullets on command. read more…
Start your Monday like this. DJ Mazic’s Mzansi muted thumper “Visions of 2″. In case you hadn’t noticed, Mzansi House is a global movement. read more…
Last Sunday, Hawston Beach, Hawston, 18h42. read more…
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Doctor Nzimande, I Presume |
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